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Wedge tomb in Bohateh North

Wedge tomb

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Bohateh North holds a wedge tomb where ancient hands tilted massive stones into a narrow passage. The structure still challenges modern assumptions about strength and time. People may have gathered there to mark death, celebrate harvest or watch the sky. The stones remember more than living people because they stopped fleeing the storm.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Date of upload: 28 December 2011
Wedge tomb; Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its form is characteristic of west Irish megalithic traditions and reflects regional funerary practices of the period.

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